I Love This Side To Johnny. I Especially Love Him Throwing His School Report Through The Window And Riding

As written in the video section :"Paul listens to the song "Beautiful Boy" and tries to hold back the tears. Notice the tribute in the song to Paul ("every day, in every way, is getting better and better"). It's from The Beatles' song "Getting Better" - John's contribution to that song at the time was cynical and witty (his lyric was "it can't get no worse") but here he was sending a little message to Paul that Paul was right, life does just get keep getting better and better."

Seeing Paul holding back his tears makes me want to cry ugly.

I love this. This is why I struggle with people holding a particular book or author up and saying this is the true story of the Beatles or John Lennon or whatever. People have spotty memories and people have a tendency to remember things in a way that minimises their faults or presents them in the best light or removes negative memories. You have to take everything with a grain of salt.

he's not right for you -- but right for each other

she often had to lend him the fare -- he's usually offer to pay my fare

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Cyn and Phyllis remembering mirror pasts.

There’s no John hate here! Us John lovers have to stick together 😘❤️

December 8, 1980. 

This 100 percent nails how I feel. Who is attacking Paul’s talent now? Why do people think he needs defending? The thing that really annoys me is you are apparently never allowed to criticise anything Paul does. If you found him annoying at times in Get Back, people will come at you with pitchforks. But it’s perfectly ok to call George a whiner or criticise John’s whole existence and it’s fine. Lol!!

Re: the Paul divide; I always find it so strange how people are so either/or about the whole thing. I think people need to understand that yes, Paul is absolutely a brilliant, visionary creative figure, but that doesn't mean he isn't also a weird, neurotic gay mess, and vice versa. Both are true. Also that those things aren't mutually exclusive - it's actually not that unusual a combo. This isn't really directed at you per se, just a general observation.

Oh, no worries. You put it brilliantly, really, better than I could.

Going to go on a bit of a tangent here, because I'm trying to understand this a bit better lately, but I do wonder when precisely the either/or attitude towards Paul in fandom really started? And exactly what purposes it serves. Because, like you said, neurotic gay and visionary genius aren't mutually exclusive; often those two sets of characteristics come hand in hand (Bernstein is there to prove that, after all. Tchaikovsky, too.) Obviously, within fandom spaces, we are all trying to have fun in different ways, and friction is bound to happen, but it's still interesting to me to try and figure out whether this dichotomy based view re: Paul actually does still come from the Lennon Remembers etc. fallout (as reaction to it) or if its current incarnation is a more or less new construct based on the idea of "rehabilitating" Paul's image, but made more intense (and bound to get into echo loops) by internet fandom spaces, when whatever or whoever called Paul "villain" in the first place has long left the room, and the material consequences of that have been more or less neutralised (I would argue this has been the case since the 90's, since a lot of Paul Sympathy hinges on Beatles Popularity.) I dunno! I spent 10 years very deliberately liking the four of them on my lonesome, someone tell me what the fuck happened here lmao

It feels to me like something of that either/or attitude (which goes beyond just, he was gay and neurotic vs. he was a normie genius, which are both fairly Positive views) comes from an almost... hilarious translation of the Lennon-McCartney competitive game to Beatles fandom as a whole. And a translation of a very specific moment of their competition, when it was less playfully antagonistic and more Mozart vs. Salieri Showdown Picking One or the Other Will Show How Good You Are, Morally. The origins of the thing seem easy enough to understand, but its usefulness now, in 2021, when Paul is a billionaire and has been more than recognised for his brilliance, is what escapes me. Shouldn't we now move to a deeper understanding of him, now that the external validation bit has been taken care of? Shouldn't we move on and talk about how In Spite of All the Danger is such a beautiful song of gay teenage longing and loyalty look at him go his flat PR image was constructed in the first place? How the push for him to be seen as The genius (it's his turn to be 3/4 of the Beatles now!) isn't actually that helpful at all in terms of allowing him depth? I guess the thing I'm trying to understand is, who exactly do we think is attacking Paul now, or have we based our defence of him on things that got solved in 1997.

The comments on this picture are hilarious. Paul has nowhere to lean because they’ve been asked to pose that way. I’m all for deep dive analysis but sometimes the simplest explanation is the real explanation. And they all supported each other. It wasn’t just one way.

The Beatles

Such a beautiful friendship! We all need friends who inspire us to push our boundaries of what we think we can do

George Harrison & John Lennon | 1971

"I think that one of the things that I developed just by being in The Beatles was being bold and I think John had a lot to do with that. Because John Lennon, if he felt something strongly, he just did it. I picked up a lot of that by being a friend of John’s. Just that attitude of, 'Well, just go for it, just do it.'" ~ George Harrison

Friendly reminder that John wrote Ticket to Ride and obviously due to Paul revisionism some people have fallen for a different story. So annoying

Today's really strange lyric theory...

We all know now that Paul wrote Ticket to Ride about trips to Ryde with John because he literally said it in "The Lyrics" and when he says a song is about John I'm inclined to believe him.

But you know what other song has "ride"? "Got to Get You Into My Life"

I was alone, I took a ride I didn't know what I would find there Another road where maybe I Could see another kind of mind there Ooh, then I suddenly see you Ooh, did I tell you I need you Every single day of my life?

I'm not saying the song isn't about weed, but I think it's also about John and that trip too.

I mean...this is Paul, fucking every song he's ever written since his first song is about John in some way.

I am not sure John was a baby but he was a softie. He is missed

the softest guy i’ve ever met

John Lennon begins to realise that Paul McCartney is broken. The Beatles, interviewed by Jeremy James for Day By Day. Portsmouth Guildhall, 12th November 1963 - part 2 (part 1)

Can we all just weep at John’s body language in 3 & 4: “Constantly transferring your weight from one foot to the other or rocking forward and backward is a comforting movement that indicates you are anxious or upset…[rubbing your earlobes] is a soothing action to counter feelings of uneasiness or vulnerability.”

(Also in no.3, John and Paul’s synchronised head turning, ama cry over that as well, they were so attuned to each other goddamnit.)